Wednesday, August 6
Haiku Interlude
Your software is bloated
With features that do not work
Microsoft, you suck
Got to work this morning and started working on a major project that has documents in most of the Microsoft Office XP suite.
Went to print the project timeline spreadsheet, and Excel does not print, it just locks up. Goodie. Started troubleshooting. Tried the "Repair Office" proceedure. Didn't work, bringing up the Print, Print Preview or Page Setup and the program just hangs. So I removed and reinstalled Excel. Still does the same thing. Ok, tried to find the base template for Excel to delete it and see if that fixed the problem. Can't find a base template file.
Talked to some buddies. Said I needed to completely remove Office, then manually remove all the directories and clear the registry. Ok, did that, reinstalled Office. Excel now prints.
Next step, edit and print my Visio maps of the current and proposed network. Guess what? Visio, which had worked all morning, now quits working.
So I'm off to reinstall Visio XP and all it's related crap. Lucky me.
Microsoft, you suck.
[Updated]
Ok, got Visio Pcrofessional XP installed, loaded SP1. Now I can't print to Adobe Acrobat 5.0. Time to load yet another program because one Micro$osft application quit working. Yeah, great programming on Micro$oft's part!
Reloading Adobe Acrobat caused Visio to stop loading. What a great setup. Had to completely remove both programs and reinstall. Wonder won't work tomorrow.
With features that do not work
Microsoft, you suck
Got to work this morning and started working on a major project that has documents in most of the Microsoft Office XP suite.
Went to print the project timeline spreadsheet, and Excel does not print, it just locks up. Goodie. Started troubleshooting. Tried the "Repair Office" proceedure. Didn't work, bringing up the Print, Print Preview or Page Setup and the program just hangs. So I removed and reinstalled Excel. Still does the same thing. Ok, tried to find the base template for Excel to delete it and see if that fixed the problem. Can't find a base template file.
Talked to some buddies. Said I needed to completely remove Office, then manually remove all the directories and clear the registry. Ok, did that, reinstalled Office. Excel now prints.
Next step, edit and print my Visio maps of the current and proposed network. Guess what? Visio, which had worked all morning, now quits working.
So I'm off to reinstall Visio XP and all it's related crap. Lucky me.
Microsoft, you suck.
[Updated]
Ok, got Visio Pcrofessional XP installed, loaded SP1. Now I can't print to Adobe Acrobat 5.0. Time to load yet another program because one Micro$osft application quit working. Yeah, great programming on Micro$oft's part!
Reloading Adobe Acrobat caused Visio to stop loading. What a great setup. Had to completely remove both programs and reinstall. Wonder won't work tomorrow.
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